In terms of the postseason, the MSU women’s basketball team is all we have left.

The Spartans will play in the semifinals of the WNIT on Wednesday with a chance to play in a national championship game.

The WNIT may not be the championship they had in mind, but it’s more than any other women’s Big Ten team, and all but one men’s Big Ten team, will achieve this postseason.

Ohio State’s men’s basketball team is the only men’s team still alive in the conference, and it continues its quest for a championship tonight in the NIT semifinals.

So, after covering women’s basketball throughout the season, it’s disheartening to see next to no students at Breslin Center supporting the team — especially during its postseason run.

Being a student, and having attended both ice hockey and men’s basketball games, I am usually impressed with the student support both teams receive. Most impressive was the hockey game against Michigan at Joe Louis Arena on Feb. 23, where 70-80 percent of the sold-out crowd, from what I could tell, were either students or alumni.

In a crowd, students provide the energy and emotion that parents, young children and high school sports teams cannot. The connection students have with their team is something that can’t be duplicated. The cheers that only students know, and chant at the men’s basketball games (“AIR BALL, AIR BALL,” the “WHO CARES” after each opponent is introduced and the “WHOOSH” after made free throws with the “spirit fingers”) are nonexistent at women’s games. The only cheer I generally hear while sitting on media row is the standard “Go Green, Go White” when prompted by the cheerleaders.

The average crowd at Breslin Center for women’s games is 6,342 — but that number is highly padded and includes players, employees, media and season ticket holders whether they are there or not. The men manage to pack an average of 14,759 people into Breslin Center every game — about 2,300 being students.

You’ve heard men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo and the players say how much they love and depend on the Izzone during their home games, and sometimes even on road games. They’ve said the fans make Breslin Center an intimidating place for opposing teams.

Having covered mostly women’s sports while at The State News, I’m ashamed at how little fan turnout our teams receive on the student end. I’m also ashamed to admit that before my time working as a reporter, I was included in the bunch that never attended.

So, with at least one more game left, and at most two, for the women’s basketball team in the postseason, come out and cheer the Spartans on to victory starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Breslin Center against North Carolina State.

If nothing else, you can go and watch Sparty do his thing on the sidelines.